The content of Shi Hu's envoy's shout is not new, but it is just that the text of the army sent out in the country earlier was recited again. At the same time, he focused on refuting the earlier Huainan army scattered to Huaibei's text, it can be seen that there are also literary people in the slave army with the army, but they wrote a generous prose with a tone of voice, to the effect that the southern wilderness is ignorant, I don't see Chinese heroes, and the king of Zhongshan is eloquent, and he doesn't care about your bad words.

What surprised Shen Zhezi was that the shouting finally began to be named, including himself, Huainan Army Guo Yu, Mao Bao, Han Huang and other generals were also among the names, and even Yu Yi, who is now sitting in Hefei on the back road, has not been missed, which shows that the slave army is not ignorant of the situation in Huainan.

However, this naming is not an insult, but a surrender, calling on them to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, so that they can save their lives, and even the Lord will benefit. For example, Shen Zhezi, if he is willing to lead his troops to surrender, he will be directly crowned as a county duke, and he can choose the lord to be suitable, and the position of the horse will be retained, and the position will even be before Yu Yi, and the meaning of provocation is really strong.

Shen Zhezi's response to this was to order the navy to draw bows and shoot in a row. He had no interest in the princess of the Karma Hu. Even if it is not in terms of righteousness, even if Shi Le has a daughter who is as beautiful as a flower, it is still a cool daylily in autumn, and he can calculate that he will wilt in a few days with his fingers.

After those messengers who shouted along the river were shot back, Xuan was introduced into the camp of the Chinese army in the slave formation, and when he learned that Shen Zhezi was so arrogant and tough, Shi Hu was also angry and laughed: "Nanxiang barbarians, after all, they know shallowly. I also said that this raccoon dog Shen Weizhou is a wise person, and there is no lack of foresight, but it turns out that he is just a mediocre person who clings to the old ways. Since he has no way out, he doesn't have to be polite. Take a night's rest today, and start attacking Yingkou tomorrow after the morning cooking! If you can't get down within three days, the overseer will return to the camp and receive the punishment! ”

Although he put on a grand posture with his own troops, the focus of the initial attack could only be placed on the battle for waterways. If the waterway cannot be opened, the hundreds of thousands of troops can only sigh and sigh in the face of the mighty Huaishui. Even if a boat is being built near Huaishui at the moment, with the presence of the Yingkou Huainan Army to intercept it, it is difficult to successfully transport the brigade of men and horses across Huai.

As the first battle in the south, and Yingkou, which attacked the waterway fortress, whether it was gram or not, the momentum must be fought first. So in the battle of tomorrow, Shi Hu personally ordered the generals and ordered the general Zhang Jackal to be responsible for the first round of attack.

After Zhang Jackal received the order, he also knew that the responsibility was heavy, and he did not dare to slack off, so he returned to the front to select 5,000 brave and good soldiers, independent of the camp, and distributed fine armor blades. Before it was dark, the camp was already slaughtering cattle and sheep, cooking a feast for everyone, and after dark, the soldiers returned to the camp to sleep and recuperate. Many patrol drills are omitted, and they are all prepared for battle, which is a preferential treatment only for the soldiers who have climbed into battle and pulled out the camp first.

Early the next morning, all the slave armies were active. The 5,000 selected soldiers had already finished their formation in front of the army, waiting for the commander to issue the banner of attack. And Shi Hu also got up early and left the camp, personally sitting on the earthen platform that had been set up behind the battlefield, and the generals were around him, with heavy armor guards in front and back, and his might could be said to be extremely powerful.

In order to cooperate with the offensive on the frontal battlefield, all units of the slave army also made corresponding arrangements. The soldiers on the left and right wings leaned out more than ten miles away, and bamboo rows and wooden fences were placed along the river to block the Huainan naval army cruising on the river and avoid the naval army landing and charging when the hot war was in full swing.

At the same time, in some narrow waterways along the Huai, there are also many slave troops assembled, preparing floating bamboo rafts and the like, once it is found that the Huainan army is inconvenient to dispatch and there are loopholes in the defense line, they will immediately put the board to attack.

On the eve of the war, the atmosphere in this area was already unprecedentedly solemn and tense, perhaps because of the intimidation of the army, even the water did not seem to be as smooth as before. Since last night, the Huainan army has increased its troops to Yingkou by boat, and until dawn, the troop-carrying boats have not stopped, and they have continued to start from Shouchun and trace up to Yingkou into Yingkou.

And on this section of the Huai River waterway, there is a warship floating on the water almost every few miles, and there are almost no idle waves on the wide water!

Shen Zhezi was sitting on a warship in Huai, no matter what kind of ambition he had before, he was still inevitably nervous when the real thing came to an end. He didn't leave the city because he couldn't believe Guo Yu, he really didn't have the mood to sit in the city, and he needed to go to the battlefield to see the battle with his own eyes before he felt at ease. He was worried that if he entered the camp, it would affect Guo Yu's impromptu response, so he stayed in Huaishui.

At this time, the boats that were still sailing into Yingkou seemed to have a heavy draft, but in fact, most of them were carrying earth, stone and wood, and there were not many real soldiers. Now, in addition to retaining the necessary emergency defensive forces, most of the rest have been concentrated in the camps around Yingkou.

A suspicious tactic similar to a bluff may not be able to hide from the opposing commanders and generals, but it can still bring a lot of psychological pressure to those ordinary soldiers. For the defenders, the frequent entry and exit of the rear ark ships also reminded them over and over again that they are not alone, but have strong backup, which is a stability for the military heart. In addition to motivating the soldiers to fight to the death, it is also possible to disintegrate the will to fight, so that the soldiers will collapse without a fight, and it will be self-defeating in minutes.

"Attack!"

A loud and violent roar sounded on the front line of the slave array, followed by the sound of drums. A full 5,000 slave soldiers were formed into three neat phalanxes on the left, center and right, accompanied by heavy drum beats, and slowly pushed towards the opposite camp.

In addition to these 5,000 soldiers, thousands of laborers had already been driven out of the battle by the cavalry, either in carts or carrying many bags of dirt on their shoulders, and rushed to the front of the battle, and began to fill in the ditches that had been filled with water on the road ahead.

The dirt bag fell in the trench, the river soon overflowed, the road became muddy and slippery, and the servant fell into the trench, and was immediately pierced by the bamboo thorns buried in the trench, and the muddy water rolled into the throat in the howl, and as the soil bag was thrown into the trench continuously, the limbs that struggled and waved gradually became weak, and soon the corpse was in the middle!

A similar trench, with six or seven dense lines outside the barracks, completely covered an area of several miles within a radius of several miles to the left. And between these deep trenches, they are also full of wooden fences that block horses, some of which are half-buried in the soil, and some are directly erected on the ground. At this time, behind these horse-rejecting wooden fences, there were already Huainan army crossbowmen lined up.

Seeing that although the slave army was slow, it smoothly bulldozed the two outer trenches, gradually approaching the firing range, and there was an array of slave soldiers in the rear who could not see the border at a glance, these soldiers inevitably nervously tongue dry, and even their hands and feet had a hidden sense of powerlessness!

"Years of sharpening swords, just to kill slaves! The slave's first battle exploits, stacked in front of him, just waiting for the bow and knife to be killed! If you win, you will boast about the north and south, and you will be proud of the world, and if you lose, your head will be in a different place, and there will be no bones! ”

Tian Jing of the Huainan Army, who was in charge of the first line of defense, was surrounded by more than a dozen soldiers who supervised the formation, running behind the battle formation, raising his arms and shouting. And this defense of the first line of defense is the Shengwu Army, which has long been valued by Shen Zhezi, and their armament ration is superior to the rest of the Huainan Army, so they are naturally reused when they are in battle!

"We are all suffering from the disaster, but fortunately we have picked up the horses, paid them strong armor, given sharp blades, and our food and clothing are all very thick, and the supply has been abundant for a long time, so as not to dry bones in the mountains and fields, and fight bravely to crown the army! Repay the country and repay the kindness, at this time! Kill slaves and hunt for merit, and worship the lord to shock the north and south! Just a slave and ugly, An can compete with my Chinese blood! ”

At this time, the front of the slave army was already close to the firing range. The first line is the forced carts in front, although these chariots are far less sophisticated and sturdy than the Huainan chariots, but they are piled with dirt bags and erected shields, and the protection is still not to be underestimated.

"Shoot!"

With an order, the 2,000 soldiers of the Huainan Army all drew their bows and shot at the opposite side, instantly stifling the enemy's steady advance. Those forced servants in front of the cart are just ordinary Dingkou strong forces levied in the wild, they have no experience in fierce warfare, and they have no armor protection, and in an instant, many people will be hit by arrows, and there will be no shortage of people howling and wailing, even if there are slave soldiers holding the Go, there is still no shortage of people who abandon the Ge and flee to the rear, and the result is naturally that before being killed, the corpses are all thrown on the cart!

The Shengwu army was brave and fierce, and the advance of the slave army was temporarily blocked, but fortunately the front board car was displayed as a battlement, and the slave army in front of the army was more finely armored, and there were no large-scale casualties, and they launched a confrontation with each other.

This exchange of fire lasted for a quarter of an hour, and the two sides suffered casualties, and then the Huainan army ran out of arrows, so they began to retreat one after another, crossing the pontoon bridge over the trench. Because there were still trenches between them, it was difficult for the slave soldiers to rush up for a while, watching the Huainan army retreat in an orderly manner, and at the same time there was still time to cut off and destroy the pontoon bridge.

In this round of confrontation, the two sides suffered losses to each other, and more than 200 slave soldiers were shot and killed in front of the formation, while although the Huainan army was more prepared and prepared, it also dropped nearly 100 corpses. When this Huainan Army withdrew from the front line, the new defensive line in the rear had been assembled. The trenches were dug outside the barracks, in order to use this layer of defense to wear out the new momentum of the slave army, and even if they attacked under the barracks, they would become a tired army.

Such a result of the battle is naturally incomprehensible to the slave army that is coming from the south. Zhang Jackal, who was supervising the battle on the front line, could even feel the cold gaze of the King of Zhongshan who was sweeping the formation in the rear, and his mood couldn't help but become impatient.

But there is no way to be impatient, the Huainan army has occupied the right time and place, and the defense is extremely thorough and cumbersome. Although the slave army was more than ten times larger than the Huainan army, it only had such a large battlefield to attack in Yingkou, and even if people went up, it could not fully exert the manpower advantage of the army. can only use this kind of hard-fought method to destroy the many defensive lines set up by the Huainan Army step by step.

In fact, according to Zhang Jackal's idea, there is really no need to rush to attack Yingkou, if you can form a breakthrough in the narrow upper reaches of Yingshui, and the large army boats and ships will go down the river and form a coordinated attack with the land, Yingkou will be able to fight in a battle. Even the king of Zhongshan doesn't have to rush south, he can completely sit in the rear and dispatch, slow down the pressure of the soldiers, and wait until the peach leopard has a breakthrough in Runan, control the upper reaches of Huaishui, and the two armies will attack together, directly break through the Huaishui defense line, and the troops will come to Shouchun City!

Either way, it's much better than rushing to launch a strong offensive right now.

"June King? Bullshit June King! ”

Zhang Jackal hated and hated slander, and then led the superintendent to personally press it, and roared: "Quick attack!" If you can't reach the enemy camp, you are not allowed to retreat! ”